THE STATE OF DENIAL
RHYMES WITH THESE
25
FAMOUS QUESTIONS
STUPID ANSWERS
400
This vote of "no" is a homophone for an animal sound; what say ye?
What is nay?
400
2 parallel ropes attach to a horizontal bar to make up this acrobatic apparatus
What is a trapeze?
400
At age 25, he won the Raymond Orteig Prize of $25,000 for the first solo flight between New York & Paris
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
400
"The sparrow" is the answer to the nursery rhyme murder query "Who killed..."
Who is Cock Robin?
400
In Portugal corks are made from this variety of oak tree
What is cork?
800
What has happened to an appeal that won't be heard, or to a class that has been allowed to leave a school room
What is dismissed?
800
To breathe with difficulty & with a whistling sound
What is wheeze?
800
From 1937 to 1949, he successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title a record 25 times
Who is Joe Louis?
800
Try this opening line on a girl in China & she may say "ox" or "rat"; in the U.S. she may say "Libra" or "Taurus"
What is "What's your sign"?
800
Prune producers know to do this to plum trees each year to maintain vigorous fruiting wood
What is prune them?
1200
A bill that passes the U.S. Senate with at least 67 votes is said to be this type of denial-proof
What is veto?
1200
To identify someone vile or unethical, "ball" or "bag" can follow this word
What is sleaze?
1200
Chapter 25 of this biblical book begins, "Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah"
What is Genesis?
1200
Clara Peller's classic query in a Wendy's ad
What is "Where's the beef"?
1200
When the 2-year restoration was unveiled in 1998, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said that this has truly been put back into the Grand Central Terminal
What is Grand?
1600
Adjective for an absolute denial; it could also refer to the way clues are divided up on a "Jeopardy!" board
What is categorical?
1600
Idiomatically, these may "fall on deaf ears"
What are pleas?
1600
In 1919 this beverage company was sold to Atlanta banker Ernest Woodruff for $25 million
What is Coca-Cola?
1600
Henry Stanley's famous interrogative in 1871 Africa
What is "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"?
1600
Hofstadter's law is formulated as "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account..." this
What is Hofstadter's Law?
2000
Change one letter in "refuse" to get this, meaning to prove a statement or theory to be wrong
What is refute?
2000
It's an ornate decoration just below a building's roof
What is a frieze?
2000
It averages a height of 25 feet for its length of more than 1,500 miles
What is the Great Wall of China?
2000
George & Martha are the boozy twosome in this Albee play
What is "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"?
2000
Giambologna's Fontana di Nettuno, seen here, is a monument in this Italian city
What is bologna?